A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. This week, a slightly different approach from pit van meeffe. If you're a Flickrist don't forget to join our group and tag your quirky London photos "Londonist".......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Green Stripes: I am very interested in the formal qualities of an image, and here my eye was caught by the green and white curves in this arena in Paddington Basin. The businessman on his mobile and the child playing a......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Fire and Water: sunset reflected in the wet pavement, Royal Festival Hall. I’ve always been fascinated by the sheer scale, complexity and unknowable nature of London. Although I’ve lived here for the best part of quarter of a century (I originally......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Ironmonger Lane I come from several generations of Londoners and have never left the city for more than three weeks at a time. It was the idea of taking better holiday pictures that drove me to get an SLR camera. Like......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Shot beneath the South Bank Centre where the skaters hangout. This is one of my shortlisted entries in the Currys Our Lives competition and on display at the Mall Galleries. It has also been published in Time Out London and JPG......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Around 1,000 veterans and serving officers of the Household Cavalry take part in the annual Combined Cavalry Old Comrades Association parade in London. It’s something very British to see soldiers marching in bowler hats! I’m originally from Bradford and only moved......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. binoche - this is one of my latest pix i was invited by londonist to this photocall and juliette binoche is my favourite actress,so i made sure i got a close up amongst all the other photographers I was born in......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. I spotted this on a walk around parts of the Olympic regeneration area in Newham and Hackney last year, initially drawn to the colours and angles of the signs combined with all the reds and lines of the bricks, but the......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Silvertown Sunset, one of my favourite shots taken in Royal Victoria Docks. I moved to Sutton, London’s forgotten borough four years ago to be closer to work. Sutton has a bit of a personality crisis in as much it has a......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Since I picked up a camera, I have always thought photography was easy. Everything is in front of you and all that needs to happen is that you press the shutter release button. London is busy and it's easier to run......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Cellist As the more literary-minded of you may have guessed, Simon Crubellier is a pseudonym, necessitated by the fact that I share my name with a much better-known, and indeed much better, photographer. I came pretty late to photography, but I've......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. This picture was taken in July 2006, just over a year before the New Piccadilly café closed. I was hovering outside taking the picture, when the owner Lorenzo Marioni burst out of the door, and surveyed Denman Street as if he......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. This is one of my all time favorite shots. From the top floor of Erno Goldfinger's Balfron Tower After being unceremoniously dumped I came to London nearly 20 years ago. I've lived all over and currently reside south of the river......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. A sunset picture, over St Pauls', taken in May, last year, one of those very rare, but very beautiful sunsets we get in London, that time of the year. This is a bit like a postcard, but I'd like to think......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. East Croydon Station – I go to work early (I'm out of the house by 6am most days) but its not all bad as the early mornings offer some great photo opportunities - the lights and empty streets help. Even better......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Full English Breakfast: "Bus photography from the 243" could be a genre of its own and gives you a privileged angle on the state of the nation. I have been shooting film for a few years, mostly black and white, on......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Going Underground: I like this one as it always makes me think of heading into the city and what adventures are to be had there. Also, the colours really make it stand out IMHO. I didn't have to do any playing......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. I was on Oxford Street, when I noticed something out of the corner of my eye. I'd originally gone to do some shopping, but ended up spending the better part of an afternoon taking photos of Londoners next to an abandoned......

A series celebrating the talent of our friends over in the Londonist Flickr pool who make our site look pretty with their fabulous photographs. Here, they introduce themselves and share their favourite London shots. Tower Bridge - Although I have done quite a lot of processing on this, I really wanted to get an un-cliched image of an icon that's been done to death. It was also a really weird light that day, which has......